JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Air Force's 514th Air Mobility Wing issued the following news: Col. William Gutermuth, commander of the 514th Operations Group, has been selected as the next commander of the 514th Air Mobility Wing. Gutermuth will take command of the Freedom Wing in March from Col. Thomas Pemberton, who has led the wing since 2018. Prior to arriving to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in 2020, Gutermuth served as the 446th Operations Group comm  more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, Feb. 3 -- The U.S. Air Force's 514th Air Mobility Wing issued the following news: What the historian is watching this month: The 514th Air Mobility Wing Historian, Mr. Walter Napier III, shares his historic film choices for the month of February: "The 24th" (2020): This film tells the story of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment during World War I. Due to discriminatory policies by the armed forces during the war, limited career fields were avail  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Feb. 4 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2021: The owner of several Fairlawn, New Jersey, businesses was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for failing to pay more than $500,000 in payroll taxes, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Dennis Saccurato, 68, previously pleaded guilty to tax evasion before U.S. District Court Judge Susan D. Wigenton, who imposed   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Feb. 6 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig, issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2021: The owner of a Georgia consulting company and a Texas man were charged today in connection with their roles in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks and bribes in exchange for referrals of patient DNA samples and genetic tests to a laboratory, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. John Berberian, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Christopher   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 6 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig, issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2021: A Maryland man working as a tax preparer in New Jersey was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the IRS by preparing false income tax returns for clients in order to boost business at tax preparation companies that he and others ran, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Joseph Kenny Bat  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 4 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2021: Two men were arrested today for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud multiple financial institutions of millions of dollars, Acting Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Syed Abbas, 32, of Westerville, Ohio, and Muhammad Naveed, 35, of Jersey City, New Jersey, were arrested by federal law enforcement this morning and are each charged   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 2, 2021, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the New York Metropolitan Area - December 2020: Total compensation costs for private industry workers increased 1.8 percent in the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA metropolitan area for the year ended December 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Chief Regional Econom  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 2, 2021, on the Women's Earnings in New Jersey for 2019: In 2019, New Jersey women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $932, or 79.3 percent of the $1,176 median usual weekly earnings for their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Chief Regional Economist Ma  more